More Max Factor Fantasy Fire!

I couldn't resist - after the other day I fell in love with Max Factor Fantasy Fire all over again. It's still very much a layering/topcoat type of polish of course, but it's just so beautiful. I know it's old news, but I don't care...

This is over two coats of Barry M Indigo, which is pretty much perfect to show it off. Basecoat and topcoat are Nails Inc - Kensington Caviar and Albert Bridge.


What do you think? Are you still captivated by Fantasy Fire?

Max Factor Fantasy Fire over Barry M Navy

Bit of the lovely Fantasy Fire tonight...I forget how awesome it is every time!

 

The Barry M Navy is a firm favourite too, it's just so shiny! I sponged Fantasy Fire just on the tips, and it looks great when it catches the light.


This is two coats of Barry M Navy, two sponged layers of Fantasy Fire, and Seche Vite topcoat (which I have had enough of...the shrinkage is getting to me) Basecoat today was Nails Inc.


Are you a fan of Max Factor Fantasy Fire?


Thanks for reading!

All kinds of pink! Nails Inc, Models Own and a cosmetic sponge...

Here are today's nails! An bit of an experiment, I haven't done this often:

Started with just one nail in case I didn't like it...

With Essie Matte About You

Tried it out in matte

I make such a mess when I'm doing my nails...

Shine time!

L-R: Nails Inc Beaumont Street, Max Factor Disco Pink, Models Own Pastel Pink, Nails Inc Pall Mall, Seche Vite

I did these nails by painting the basecoat - Models Own Pastel Pink - and then using a small piece of cosmetic sponge to sponge gradually darker colours towards the tip. I mixed the colours together to get the in between stages too, that was what I used Nails Inc Pall Mall for. I gave one hand a coat of Essie Matte About You to see what it was like, but I preferred it shiny in the end.


What I used:

• Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle basecoat (I still must get a new bottle!! Keep forgetting)
• Nails Inc Beaumont Street
• Max Factor Disco Pink
• Models Own Pastel Pink
• Nails Inc Pall Mall
• Seche Vite
• Cosmetic sponge for sponging and blending 

I quite like the results. What do you think?

My favourite polishes...Nails Inc, Boots No7, Butter London and more!

Tonight on Instagram I was tagged to photograph my favourite polishes - I enjoyed doing it so thought I'd post it here too!

My Instagram account is @shepaintshernails
Webstagram: HERE

In fancy Instagram fashion!

My favourite polishes are:

Top Row L-R: Nails Inc Beaumont Street, Heddon Street, Victoria, Boots No7 Stay Perfect Tangy. 

Middle Row L-R: Butter London The Black Knight, Nails Inc Culford Gardens, Max Factor Fantasy Fire, Essie Matte About You topcoat. 

Bottom Row L-R: Boots No7 Betty Blues, Sing the Blues, Max Factor Dazzling Blue, Jessica Cosmetics Hologram Disco Diva.


I could have picked so many more! What are your favourite polishes?

Max Factor Fantasy Fire, Revlon Stunning, Nails Inc Blenheim Terrace

Here are tonight's nails! I didn't feel like stamping or art but glitter always makes me feel better. This is kinda layered, and it's different in every light, so you get a few pictures! I wish I could show how it really looks. My husband suggested I take a video and "wangle it about" (nope, no clue either!) but that doesn't even work...

Awful picture, but see how different the colour looks?!

What I used:

• Nails Inc Kensington Caviar basecoat
• Nails Inc Blenheim Terrace (1 coat)
• Max Factor Fantasy Fire (3 coats)
• Revlon Stunning (1 coat)

I love the Revlon Stunning glitter, I bought it on a whim a few days ago because I don't have any chunky glitters. It's really quite holographic in real life, so many different colours show as it catches the light - in the bottle it looks like plain silver glitter so this was a nice surprise.


What do you think?

Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Dazzling Blue - lots of pictures!

Here is tonight's manicure...before I start, can I suggest that those of you who love 'mermaid' nails get your bums down to the nearest Max Factor counter? Because this is the mermaidiest of mermaidy polishes! I love Max Factor Max Effect minis...

Attack of the Oompa Loompa hand!

What I used:

• Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle
• Barry M White polish (2 coats)
• Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Dazzling Blue (3 coats)
• Seche Vite topcoat

Now, I know five coats is a lot of coats...but I like full opacity, and this looks so nice! I even decided not to Konad it!


What's even better is that I used the £3 off voucher I got from Max Factor when I spent more than £12 on the brand in Boots. That made this polish that staggering sum of 99p!

What do you think?

And the winner is...

I've just drawn the result of my Max Factor/Nails Inc Giveaway! I used Random.org's list generator to draw the name - it was very exciting!!

Without further ado, the winner, who won by retweeting my giveaway and following me on Twitter is...



                           @LabMuffin
 

Big congratulations!

I have emailed and tweeted the winner! Max Factor and Nails Inc will soon be winging their way to you!

 

If you weren't the winner next time, don't be sad, I've already started collecting for my next giveaway if and when I hit 100 blog followers! 

 

Thank you so much to everyone that entered and commented!

Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Graffiti

Here are tonight's nails! I didn't feel much like stamping so I went with a new colour instead - Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Graffiti. This is from the same range as Fantasy Fire, and it's lovely:

As always, this is the sort of polish where I can't get a photo that shows all the lovely colours - it reminds me of a mermaid's tail in the light! It's not as sheer as Fantasy Fire either, I used three coats here with no base colour first.

What I used:

• Nails Inc Kensington Caviar basecoat
• Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Graffiti (3 coats)
• Seche Vite topcoat

What do you think?

Win Max Factor Fantasy Fire and Nails Inc!

It's giveaway time! This is my first giveaway and I'm excited to be doing it!

The Prize:

L-R: Nails Inc Kensington Caviar Basecoat, Max Factor Max Effect Fantasy Fire, Nails Inc Garrick Street

 The prize is as follows:

• One bottle of Nails Inc Kensington Caviar basecoat - this is one of my favourite basecoats!
• One mini bottle of Max Factor Max Effect Fantasy Fire - this seems to have taken the nail polish world by storm and is very hard to get hold of, for good reason, it's amazing!
• One bottle of Nails Inc Garrick Street - this is a gorgeous blue/purple duochrome

The Rules:

There are three ways to enter the giveaway and you can do each one once, for a maximum of three entries per person.

• Follow my blog via Google Friend Connect (over in the right hand bar)
• Follow me (@EternalLife_) on Twitter and tweet this: "RT and follow @EternalLife_ for your chance to win Max Factor Fantasy Fire and Nails Inc! http://tinyurl.com/76wanpr"
• 'Like' my Facebook page: She Paints Her Nails

Once you have done this, let me know your email address/GFC name/Twitter/Facebook name in the comments below AND tell me which of the polishes from the prize you like the look of best!

IMPORTANT: I will contact the winner by email where possible, so to make it nice and easy please leave your email address!!

• The deadline to enter the competition is Saturday 10th March 2012 at 11:59pm GMT
• The competition is open Internationally
• You must use a valid email/Twitter/Facebook account to enter
• I will email the winner within 48 hours of the close of the competition
• The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email or I will randomly choose another winner
• I will have no control over the prize once it is at the mercy of the postal system but I will make sure it is safely packaged!
• This is a competition for bloggers and nail polish fans - 'compers' entries will be disqualified.

Good luck!!

Max Factor Fantasy Fire - Oh no, I did it again!

I went to meet my husband from work today as it was my day off. I decided to have a look in Boots because I wanted to buy the Barry M Croc Effect polish. Which I did. But...

They had three bottles of Fantasy Fire...just sitting there staring at me. And what's this? If you spend £12 on Max Factor you get a gift including 2 Max Factor Mini Nail polishes? Sold! So, as you can imagine, there is definitely a Fantasy Fire in my giveaway! (which is happening as soon as my Internet is connected on Thursday)

Here's what I bought:

* Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Fantasy Fire x3
* Max Factor Max Effect Mini in Graffiti
* Barry M Croc Effect in black

And I received free:

* Max Factor Max Effect in Intense Plum
* Max Factor Nailfinity in Disco Pink
* Max Factor Masterpiece Max mascara mini
* Max Factor mini black Kohl pencil

Quite the haul. I'm glad it's payday. Just can't wait for Thursday now!

Max Factor Fantasy Fire - Amazing.

So, when Liloo posted a brilliantly tempting blog about Max Factor Max Effect Fantasy Fire over on her blog here: Le Petit Jardin de Liloo, I was immediately smitten and made it my mission to get my hands on this little beauty of a polish. Today, I did. She was right.

Today is my husband's birthday, but he's still great enough to hunt down nail polish with me. We initially went into Boots, who have the Max Factor mini polishes on 3 for 2, they had some beautiful colours, but alas, no Fantasy Fire. So off we went to Superdrug...and they had it! I'm not ashamed to say I bought all three bottles straight off the shelf. Much.

Here it is:

Can't. Look. Away.

A tiny hint of all the colours this holds

It's a mini bottle, I just have tiny hands

What I used:

• Nails Inc Kensington Caviar basecoat
• Nails Inc Basil Street (1 coat)
• Max Factor Max Effect in Fantasy Fire (about 5 coats!!)
• Seche Vite topcoat

Now, I'm willing to say, there are a few downsides with this gorgeous polish. I'm just going to give you a rundown of what I see to be the good and the bad.

• It's unbelievably sheer. As you can see, I layered it over a coat of nude polish just to get started, and still used 4-5 coats and it's still more sheer than I'd like.
• The bottle is tiny, and when you're using this much it won't last long. It's £3.99.
• The brush is tiny, obviously, and hard to paint with.

But:

• Just look at it. It's literally jumped straight into my top 5 favourite polishes of all time.
• The colour reminds me of Dairy Milk chocolate wrappers...
• It's wonderfully shiny.
• Again, just look. In all honesty, it's a million times nicer in real life. My crappy iPhone photography skills won't let me capture the shades of red, gold, green, blue, purple...

I think I'm in love. Thank you Liloo.